That does make sense now that you mention it that way. I never knew that the company owed so much money to other companies. But I did noticed that they only kept specific parts that were "in" so to speak when I first started getting into cars. That was probably about 5 years or so ago when HKS Apexi etc were the big boss companies in the market; but like you said it seems that if you fall out of the loop for even a week there's a million and one new parts released and you wouldn't know what 1/2 of them are for. I looked at a superstreet magazine for the first time in months the other day and was like who the hell are all these new companies with all these new parts, sorta made me feel like I was a newbie all over again.

Hopefully they will bounce back and realize that keeping inventory in the store isn't all about having racing seats, body kits, exhausts and a blow off valve it's about the real hard parts as you were saying.